Serial phone scammer arrested by Tourist Police after 5 million baht in cons

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Serial phone scammer arrested by Tourist Police after 5 million baht in cons

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that a 37 year old Thai phone scammer responsible for a series of cons worth 5 million baht was arrested by the Tourist Police.

 

Kanchanaburi native Sonthaya was arrested at a resort in Song Phee Nong district of Suphanburi after an informant notified the police. 

 

Sonthaya was involved in phoning relatives of people to claim that they had been involved in accidents and needed money to be transferred to help them out. 

 

He had already been prosecuted for such scamming but had not learned his lesson, said Daily News, mentioning there were several warrants out for his arrest. 

 

Thaivisa notes that the operations of the tourist police in Thailand stretch beyond matters involving visitors to the kingdom. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[Colabamumbai]

Don't get any ideas now guys. 

[d2b2]

A Thai scamming Thais? Impossible. It has to be a foreigner.

[RichardColeman]

51 minutes ago, d2b2 said:

A Thai scamming Thais? Impossible. It has to be a foreigner.

Maybe met a Nigerian English teacher in a bar

[metempsychotic]

54 minutes ago, d2b2 said:

A Thai scamming Thais? Impossible. It has to be a foreigner.

way to perpetuate those thaivisa cliches, cant you come up with any new material? 

[metempsychotic]

22 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Maybe met a Nigerian English teacher in a bar

ah 2 cliches for the price of one!

[Samuel Smith]

11 minutes ago, metempsychotic said:

ah 2 cliches for the price of one!

Thaivisa, "hub of cliches" ????

[DaRoadrunner]

Wish I had the contract to print all those posters for the police.

[Geoffggi]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

He had already been prosecuted for such scamming but had not learned his lesson, said Daily News, mentioning there were several warrants out for his arrest.

This is because penalties for Thais are not strict enough, people know it will only result in a slap on the wrist or close to it